Friday, November 12, 2010

WetnWild Holiday: Night Elf Palette Review + Looks

I bought 3 of the 4 Wet n Wild Holiday palettes a little over a week ago, and of course this one drew me in the fastest. Red eyeshadow... from the drugstore? Count me sold.

These little gems sell for $4.99 and consist of 6 eyeshadows and a matching eyeliner. Pretty good deal... WetnWild has really been stepping up their game lately. I am hoping they release a new permanent line of the 6 pans from earlier this year... that would be awesome!

Anyway, back to this palette... look at the gorgeousness:

I will note that if you like to keep packaging, the packaging on these is a bit wasteful. The palettes aren't very large and literally half of the box is just open air! It's not a big deal for me but I've sent two sets of these to girls overseas and on one set, I took them all out of the boxes to save postage.

I have to stress the quality of these eyeshadows for the price. Even if they cost double for each palette, even triple, I would say they would still be worthy of the price tag. The color selection on these palettes is amazing for the drugstore... it's a refreshing change from the boring same old, same old we've been seeing from other brands. Hint hint guys, keep up with WetnWild, will you! :)

All colors in this palette are shimmery, which could be a complaint for some but I personally have enough matte skin tone highlighters to last me into the year 3000.

The matching eyeliner in the set is a really nice deep black with a slight silver sparkle... very good eyeliner despite the size, which is a little on the tiny side.

I can immediately spot the blue/brown shade being a dupe for Mac Club. I've read on some forums that it is more like Blue Brown pigment, which I've never seen in person so I cannot comment. I can certainly tell you that it's 5x more pigmented than Club though... this eyeshadow is insanely smooth and easily to apply.

The black with sparkle eyeshadow is a dupe for Mac Black Tied... again, it's more pigmented. I think WetnWild made a smart choice by making it more of a satin texture versus a matte with sparkle, even though they do mattes very well.

The red is a bit lacking in pigmentation but I wasn't really wanting a full on matte red eyeshadow... I like how it turned out in the upcoming FOTD I will show.

All of the colours are potential faves, they all apply very smooth and even with the exception of the silver. The silver is not as finely milled and I therefore had some fallout issues and creasing. Yes, creasing. I hesitate to bring this up because I'm not sure if I made an error in my eye prepping (I may have accidentally got some of my Clinique Redness cream on my eyelids) or if it is the eyeshadow. I have not had a chance to wear it again to tell for sure. I photographed my FOTD even though it was at the end of the day and one eye is very badly creased.

The next day I decided to try again with the other shadows to see if they would crease. I did not have the problem, though the blue sparkles in the brown shade did migrate around a little (no surprise there, it's a strange shade). Still, my makeup looked great at the end of the day. I did a brown sort of smokey eye, I guess?

15 comments:

This was the one palette I didn't get from Wet N Wild's holiday palettes. I know the red looks so pretty, but I was thinking...red eyeshadow? On me? I just knew I couldn't make it work. But looking at your photos, I can see that it's not a super bright red and it looks very pretty on your eyes! At the time I bought mine, I don't think there was anyone (at least I knew of) from the beauty blogger community who owned these online so I couldn't see the swatches before purchasing. I may go back and get this one after all. Very pretty :)

What a coincidence, I bought this the other day! I have yet to try it out but now I know some things to expect, thanks to you. Also the red looks great in the look- not as vibrant as I expected but very pretty nonetheless!

I think the club dupe looks even prettier than the original ! I haven't found them in my drugstore yet : may be next week in Canada ? I have the regular ones : Lust, Vanity....and I am amazed by the quality....Great use of the red shadow in the crease !

Love the second look! As discussed before, I wore the shadows for approximately 9 hours and had no creasing issues. I did have the black shadow travel a bit to my lid from my crease but nothing that was noticeable to anyone, except me. I knew you said you had issues with the silver creasing so I challenged it and wore it over NYX JEP Milk. That's my report ;) lol